final exam #3

Question 1

a U.S. plan to inject money and support into post-WWII Europe to help prevent communism

Answer 1

Marshall Plan

Question 2

How did the US solve the problem of the Berlin Blockade

Answer 2

Berlin Airlift

Question 3

Why were so Western countries interested in getting a foothold in China in the early 1900s?

Answer 3

they wanted to trade with China

Question 4

which peacekeeping organization failed because it didn’t have military backing and the US did not join them?

Answer 4

League of Nations

Question 5

The economic idea developed due to the perceived abuses of the industrial revolution

Answer 5

communism

Question 6

poor wages and bad working conditions caused _____ to form in the 19th C.

Answer 6

Labor unions

Question 7

Gandhi used the idea of ______ to fight British rule over India

Answer 7

Non-violent resistance

Question 8

What was not a primary cause of WWI?

Answer 8

Communism

Question 9

Mass extermination of a group of people due to their race, religion, or ethnicity

Answer 9

Genocide

Question 10

What was the main reason Europeans colonized Africa in the 19th C.?

Answer 10

to take the natural resources found in Africa